When I first went to the CCIE lab, there weren't very many books available and little was known about the CCIE lab,
except that the labs had a reputation for being extremely difficult. Any regular reader of the Cisco mailing lists at
groupstudy.com will often see questions posed to the various lists about the best way to prepare for the CCIE lab
such as: "What are the best strategies to use?" "What is the lab like?" "Where should I go to take the lab?" and many
more. This Tutorial answers these questions within the bounds of Cisco's strong nondisclosure agreement. This paper
will discuss in...

The cisco press CCIE practical studies volume 1 book contains 5 simulated CCIE lab exams in chapter 18, and the solutions are not in the book. As promised in the book, the solutions are posted are www.ciscopress.com. This file contains the solutions to one of those labs. The solutions were developed using a lab pod from skylabs, a remote lab offering from skyline computer.

This lab is a build-to-specifications test. Numerous issues need to be addressed for this lab to work correctly. The lab
illustrates some of the different ways to configure a router as a frame relay switch and emphasizes the differences
between a partially meshed switch and a fully meshed switch. When you thoroughly understand the differences
between each configuration, you will be prepared to configure your own frame relay switch for any given practice
scenario.

This document has been prepared in an offort to provide answers to the most frequently asked questions about setting up a lab. these recommendations are not set in stone. these are just some guidelines to point candidates in the right direction.

The study aids you will find here are of some value without equipment.
But, you really should look at these labs and scenarios as assignments to be
completed on some real Cisco® equipment. You need to get used to using
the "show", "debug" and other command line tools to figure out why your
configuration does not work. If this site had 200 scenarios and 200 Sample
Labs you would still find things on Cisco's CCIE® lab test, that you have
not worked with before (or you worked with it so long ago that you forgot
it!)...

This lab teaches the reader to configure and use a terminal server such as a Cisco 2509 or 2511. Although this is a
relatively simple lab, mastery of this material is critically important. If you cannot fully configure a terminal server in
five minutes or less, then you do not know this material well enough. This particular lab is important because, once
you have mastered the ability to build a terminal server quickly, you can work on your other practice scenarios much
more efficiently.

Option 3 is the recommended approach because it closely resembles the second day of the CCIE lab test. On the
second day of the test, the lab proctor will break your existing configurations, or provide new buggy configurations,
and ask you to troubleshoot the problems.

This lab is designed to be a build-to-specifications test. There are numerous issues that need to be addressed for this
lab to work correctly. The lab is designed to illustrate some of the problems associated with ISDN and link state
routing protocols, such as OSPF. This lab will concentrate on dialer profiles while the second lab scenario will be a
troubleshooting scenario based on a distance vector protocol and legacy DDR configuration. The two scenarios are
designed to thoroughly test your knowledge of the basics of ISDN configuration.

Not all the topics discussed today
appear on every exam
• For time reasons, we’re unable to
discuss every feature and topic
possible on the exam. CCIE Program (Cont.)
• Each exam track has a separate
qualification exam (or set of qualification
exams) and a lab exam
• Not all exams are available at all sites
• There are more than 7000 CCIE’s
worldwide

This document is designed to be a companion to Volume 1,2,3 and 4. The CCIE certification is a written test and a lab test. This document will help the student further build upon their technical skills and configuration skills. The document contains practice CCIE scenario labs.